Re: F16 USB pass-through to VirtualBox

On 02/23/2012 02:23 PM, Dave Close wrote: > I can probably find a way to do this whenever a drive is inserted. But > others may have better ideas so I'd love to hear suggestions. I "think" I may know what you want What you need to do is define a "USB" filter. When the "guest" is started or

Re: Adobe and Google Partnering for Flash Player on Linux

On 2/22/2012 10:59 PM, Heinz Diehl wrote: For me as a student, this will force me to buy and use Windows immediately, which I haven't used since Windows 3.1. It is absolutely crucial for me to be able to view all websites, and a lot of them use flash. The day this will no longer be possible on my

Re: F16 USB pass-through to VirtualBox

On 02/23/2012 02:23 PM, Dave Close wrote: > Perhaps. I was thinking of something to run in the guest since that's > where the checkbox seems to be. But maybe I'm just a bit naive. To > run this on the host, I would need to detect when a drive is inserted, > read its UUID, and then run the command.

Re: Adobe and Google Partnering for Flash Player on Linux

On 23.02.2012, Tom Horsley wrote: > I don't see it as a problem, I see it as yet another thing > that will help hasten the demise of flash. For me as a student, this will force me to buy and use Windows immediately, which I haven't used since Windows 3.1. It is absolutely crucial for me to be a

Re: F16 USB pass-through to VirtualBox

Ed Greshko wrote: >> There doesn't appear to be any checkbox in the VBox settings to make >> this automatic. And running headless, I won't normally be able to do >> it. There must be some command I can run in the guest to accomplish the >> same thing as the USB device menu. Perhaps I can put that

Re: Fedora 16 Stuck on Welcome Screen

On Wednesday 22 February 2012 21:27:51 T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: > On Feb 22, 2012 3:12 PM, "Pete Travis" wrote: > > > Append "systems.unit=multi-user.target" to the linux= line of your grub > > That's "systemd.unit=mult-user.target". (Slight typo there ;-) Oh, let me join the game: "systemd.u

Re: F16 USB pass-through to VirtualBox

On 02/23/2012 12:17 PM, Dave Close wrote: > Richard Shaw wrote: > >> One thing you didn't mention is if you right clicked on the USB icon >> in the bottom right of the virtual guest window. USB devices don't >> automatically get mapped to the guest unless you set it that way in >> the virtual guest

Re: Fedora 16 Stuck on Welcome Screen

On Feb 22, 2012 3:12 PM, "Pete Travis" wrote: > > > On Feb 22, 2012 1:19 PM, "J.T. Blaylock" wrote: > > > > Hey all, > > > > I have a fresh Fedora 16 64 bit KDE install from DVD iso on USB. It boots up to the "Welcome" screen but when I click "Forward" to proceed to the license information screen

Re: F16 USB pass-through to VirtualBox

Richard Shaw wrote: >One thing you didn't mention is if you right clicked on the USB icon >in the bottom right of the virtual guest window. USB devices don't >automatically get mapped to the guest unless you set it that way in >the virtual guest settings. If everything is setup correctly, when you

Re: nx

On Sun, 19 Feb 2012 13:35:44 + (GMT) Patrick Dupre wrote: > From a fedora 14 I cannot open a nx session of a fedora 16. > > The nx server seems OK > > systemctl status nxserver.service > nxserver.service - LSB: Starts and stops the NoMachine NX Server. > Loaded: loaded (/etc/rc.d/in

Problem with atl1c driver for AR8152 network card.

G'day all, I have seen a couple of unresolved references to this driver in bugzilla and some fixes for older Fedora and kernel versions that don't reliably work in F16. Removing and reloading the atl1c module repeatedly will get it working less than 5%

Re: Adobe and Google Partnering for Flash Player on Linux

On 02/22/2012 11:52 AM, Alchemist wrote: > 2012/2/22 Greg Woods : >> On Wed, 2012-02-22 at 20:19 +0200, Alchemist wrote: >>> http://blogs.adobe.com/flashplayer/2012/02/adobe-and-google-partnering-for-flash-player-on-linux.html >> That appears to say that the Flash plugin for 64-bit Linux will only

Re: Adobe and Google Partnering for Flash Player on Linux

On 02/23/2012 03:47 AM, Rick Stevens wrote: > > Also let's not forget that Google is pushing HTML5 and that means H.264 > for now. Not sure why you claim that since Google open sourced VP8 and YouTube is encoding by default to WebM and displaying in WebM automatically if Flash player is not in

Re: Adobe and Google Partnering for Flash Player on Linux

On Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:18:16 -0700 "Nex6" wrote: > > Here is the adobe link: > http://blogs.adobe.com/flashplayer/2012/02/adobe-and-google-partnering-for-flash-player-on-linux.html > > and it says they are changing APIs, and will support the current API/plugins > (11.2) for 5 years. > > a

Re: [Bulk] re-mapping an older disk ??

On Wed, 22 Feb 2012 12:21:49 -0700 Greg Woods wrote: > On Wed, 2012-02-22 at 11:00 -0600, Steven Stern wrote: > > On 02/22/2012 10:56 AM, William Case wrote: > > > > 1) Hardware from switching the disk's order around (channel 1 <==> > > > channel 2 in BIOS) > > > 2) Improperly installing or usin

Re: re-mapping an older disk ??

On Wed, 22 Feb 2012 11:25:01 -0500 William Case wrote: > Hi; > > I have some hard disk problems, every thing I try just keeps digging a > deeper hole. > SMART Data > > Disk HAS MANY BAD SECTORS > Backup all data and replace the disk > > Current Pending Sector Count > Number of sectors waiting

Re: re-mapping an older disk ??

On Wed, 2012-02-22 at 11:25 -0500, William Case wrote: > Could also be from physicaly switching two 500g harddrives around? Yes, if you've bashed them about... Another consideration point with a sudden demise of a drive, is to check that the power supply is ok. If you're trying to recover data f

Re: Adobe and Google Partnering for Flash Player on Linux

On 02/22/2012 12:53 PM, James Wilkinson wrote: Joe Zeff wrote: Why? All of the Microsoft fanbois will have it and you'll be able to use it on your Mac. Like it or not, that's well over 90% of the market, and to Adobe, that's all that matters. Not any more: they’ve never had Flash on iPhone

Re: Fedora 16 Stuck on Welcome Screen

On Feb 22, 2012 1:19 PM, "J.T. Blaylock" wrote: > > Hey all, > > I have a fresh Fedora 16 64 bit KDE install from DVD iso on USB. It boots up to the "Welcome" screen but when I click "Forward" to proceed to the license information screen the button darkens like it's been pressed and just stays lik

Re: kde slow to start after a crash

On 02/22/2012 12:55 PM, Walter Cazzola wrote: Dear Linuxers, I've a quite frustrating problem, yesterday trying to send a file via Skype this crashed and my linux-box became unresponsive. After rebooting KDE started really very slowly (it is taking more or less 20 minutes to be fully loaded and r

RE: kde slow to start after a crash

try a new account Original Message Subject: kde slow to start after a crash From: Walter Cazzola Date: Wed, February 22, 2012 1:55 pm To: Fedora Users ML Dear Linuxers, I've a quite frustrating problem, yesterday tryin

kde slow to start after a crash

Dear Linuxers, I've a quite frustrating problem, yesterday trying to send a file via Skype this crashed and my linux-box became unresponsive. After rebooting KDE started really very slowly (it is taking more or less 20 minutes to be fully loaded and responsive) and this happens at every reboot (a

Re: Adobe and Google Partnering for Flash Player on Linux

Joe Zeff wrote: > Why? All of the Microsoft fanbois will have it and you'll be able > to use it on your Mac. Like it or not, that's well over 90% of the > market, and to Adobe, that's all that matters. Not any more: they’ve never had Flash on iPhone or iPad, a lot of Android devices don’t have i

RE: Adobe and Google Partnering for Flash Player on Linux

Here is the adobe link:http://blogs.adobe.com/flashplayer/2012/02/adobe-and-google-partnering-for-flash-player-on-linux.htmland it says they are changing APIs, and will support the current API/plugins (11.2) for 5 years.and, Firefox et al will be free to use the new API and have flash-Nex6

Re: Adobe and Google Partnering for Flash Player on Linux

On 02/22/2012 12:04 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: I don't see it as a problem, I see it as yet another thing that will help hasten the demise of flash. Why? All of the Microsoft fanbois will have it and you'll be able to use it on your Mac. Like it or not, that's well over 90% of the market, and t

Re: Adobe and Google Partnering for Flash Player on Linux

2012/2/22 Tom Horsley : > On Wed, 22 Feb 2012 21:52:29 +0200 > Alchemist wrote: > >> then this is a real problem for Linux users i think. > > I don't see it as a problem, I see it as yet another thing > that will help hasten the demise of flash.t > -- Yes, for example using html5 in future. But if

Re: Adobe and Google Partnering for Flash Player on Linux

On Wed, 22 Feb 2012 21:52:29 +0200 Alchemist wrote: > then this is a real problem for Linux users i think. I don't see it as a problem, I see it as yet another thing that will help hasten the demise of flash. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscripti

Re: Adobe and Google Partnering for Flash Player on Linux

2012/2/22 Greg Woods : > On Wed, 2012-02-22 at 20:19 +0200, Alchemist wrote: >> http://blogs.adobe.com/flashplayer/2012/02/adobe-and-google-partnering-for-flash-player-on-linux.html > > That appears to say that the Flash plugin for 64-bit Linux will only be > distributed as part of the Chrome brows

Re: Adobe and Google Partnering for Flash Player on Linux

On Wed, 2012-02-22 at 20:19 +0200, Alchemist wrote: > http://blogs.adobe.com/flashplayer/2012/02/adobe-and-google-partnering-for-flash-player-on-linux.html That appears to say that the Flash plugin for 64-bit Linux will only be distributed as part of the Chrome browser? That is certainly not good

Re: [Bulk] re-mapping an older disk ??

On Wed, 2012-02-22 at 11:00 -0600, Steven Stern wrote: > On 02/22/2012 10:56 AM, William Case wrote: > > 1) Hardware from switching the disk's order around (channel 1 <==> > > channel 2 in BIOS) > > 2) Improperly installing or using LVM > > 3) Remapping > > 4) Hard drive really is broken. > > >

Fedora 16 Stuck on Welcome Screen

Hey all, I have a fresh Fedora 16 64 bit KDE install from DVD iso on USB. It boots up to the "Welcome" screen but when I click "Forward" to proceed to the license information screen the button darkens like it's been pressed and just stays like that. The cursor hangs briefly and returns to normal b

Re: Issue with vncserver not starting?

Michael D. Setzer II wrote: >I've fount that the vncserver doesn't start correctly after a power >outage or non-normal shutdown. It appears that file in the >/tmp/.X11-unix directory is left after the reboot, and causes the >startup to fail. > >My solution at the moment is to

Re: OpenSSH ECDSA support

On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 5:06 PM, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: > On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 8:42 AM, Carsten Mattner > wrote: >> I can't find the link but remember that there was talk about about reversing >> that decision after some investigation was finished. >> >> If Fedora doesn't plan to ship it wit

Looking for a Fedora tool that replaces Google Scribe

Dear All, Is there some Fedora tool equivalent to SwiftKey or to the extinct Google Scribe: http://www.swiftkey.net/ Thanks in advance, Paul -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users

Network install of Fedora 16 problems

I am having no luck trying to install Fedora 16, it hangs part way through installation, then if a re-installation then tries to fix it, it fails to boot from grub. Removed an Advantages SCSI card Tried increasing latency in BIS Tried installing from network install CD Tried installing from KDE L

Re: Hibernate: not enough swap space

On 02/22/2012 07:33:45 AM, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: > On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 8:20 AM, Geoffrey Leach > wrote: > > root@puget[21]->swapon -U ad15f364-1e9b-493b-9351-d27e0f680c97 > > > Are you by chance using the Nvidia binary blob video driver? It > might > cause this issue, and there is a wo

Re: [Bulk] re-mapping an older disk ??

On 02/22/2012 10:56 AM, William Case wrote: > On Wed, 2012-02-22 at 11:25 -0500, William Case wrote: >> Hi; >> >> I have some hard disk problems, every thing I try just keeps digging a >> deeper hole. >> SMART Data >> >> Disk HAS MANY BAD SECTORS >> Backup all data and replace the disk >> >> Curren

Re: [Bulk] re-mapping an older disk ??

On Wed, 2012-02-22 at 11:25 -0500, William Case wrote: > Hi; > > I have some hard disk problems, every thing I try just keeps digging a > deeper hole. > SMART Data > > Disk HAS MANY BAD SECTORS > Backup all data and replace the disk > > Current Pending Sector Count > Number of sectors waiting to

re-mapping an older disk ??

Hi; I have some hard disk problems, every thing I try just keeps digging a deeper hole. SMART Data Disk HAS MANY BAD SECTORS Backup all data and replace the disk Current Pending Sector Count Number of sectors waiting to be remapped Problem(s) could also be mixed with my trying to set up and use

Re: OpenSSH ECDSA support

On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 8:42 AM, Carsten Mattner wrote: > I can't find the link but remember that there was talk about about reversing > that decision after some investigation was finished. > > If Fedora doesn't plan to ship it with ECDSA enabled, what's the purpose > of the Fedora ECC/TLS Test Se

Re: [389-users] 389 Segfault

On 02/22/2012 01:06 AM, Rafael Cervillera Cortés wrote: Hi. Yesterday, one of our 389 Directory Server crashed with the message: ldap kernel: ns-slapd[4300]: segfault at rip 2b91c2db3bab rsp 5302cca0 error 4 We haven't found any information about the 4300 code on I

Re: F16 USB pass-through to VirtualBox

On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 9:36 AM, Dave Close wrote: > What can I do to stop Fedora from making the device busy? One thing you didn't mention is if you right clicked on the USB icon in the bottom right of the virtual guest window. USB devices don't automatically get mapped to the guest unless you s

Re: OpenSSH ECDSA support

On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 3:38 PM, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: > On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 6:27 AM, Carsten Mattner > wrote: >> I've tried to search bugzilla and forums for information on ECDSA support >> in the Fedora provided OpenSSH packages, but didn't find anything conclusive. >> >> What is the st

Re: F16 USB pass-through to VirtualBox

Emilio Lopez wrote: >You can also use Shared Folder, and share /media directory. You know, I appreciate replies. But it would be so much nicer if those replying took the time to actually read the original message. I specifically addressed the idea of using a shared "folder" in that. I know its po

Re: Hibernate: not enough swap space

On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 8:20 AM, Geoffrey Leach wrote: > root@puget[21]->swapon -U ad15f364-1e9b-493b-9351-d27e0f680c97 Are you by chance using the Nvidia binary blob video driver? It might cause this issue, and there is a workaround: ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/173.14.31/README

Re: Hibernate: not enough swap space

On 02/22/2012 07:09:13 AM, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: > On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 7:41 AM, Geoffrey Leach > wrote: > > On 02/22/2012 01:36:32 AM, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: > >> On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 2:22 AM, Tim > > >> wrote: > >> > On Tue, 2012-02-21 at 21:33 -0800, Geoffrey Leach wrote: > >> >>

Re: Hibernate: not enough swap space

On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 7:41 AM, Geoffrey Leach wrote: > On 02/22/2012 01:36:32 AM, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 2:22 AM, Tim >> wrote: >> > On Tue, 2012-02-21 at 21:33 -0800, Geoffrey Leach wrote: >> >> This is a fresh install of Fedora 16 on a new laptop with 8GB >> memo

Re: /sbin/shutdown -r +5 doesn't work since recent systemd upgrade

On 02/17/2012 09:08 AM, Patrick Horgan wrote: On 02/17/2012 08:43 AM, Boris Epstein wrote: On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Patrick Horgan wrote: # uname -r 2.6.41.10-3.

Re: Recovery mode. Login as root without password

>Ok, my curiosity is killing me. What is Recovery mode and how do you get >in to it? I have an entry in the grub menu for recovery mode. Probably you have the options hidden. Emilio. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.

[389-users] ACL Console

Hello All, I would like to profile ACLs in order to let some users manage their own OU via Console. Example: -OUone | USERone, USERtwo, USERthree -OUtwo | USERfour, USERfive -OUthree | USERsix, USERseven, USEReight In every OU I have many users, but I would like to give console access to one us

Re: Hibernate: not enough swap space

On 02/22/2012 01:36:32 AM, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: > On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 2:22 AM, Tim > wrote: > > On Tue, 2012-02-21 at 21:33 -0800, Geoffrey Leach wrote: > >> This is a fresh install of Fedora 16 on a new laptop with 8GB > memory. > >> When I attempt to hibernate from the Session Menu I ge

Re: OpenSSH ECDSA support

On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 6:27 AM, Carsten Mattner wrote: > I've tried to search bugzilla and forums for information on ECDSA support > in the Fedora provided OpenSSH packages, but didn't find anything conclusive. > > What is the status? Elliptic curve cryptography support has been excluded from Fe

Re: OpenSSH ECDSA support

On 02/22/2012 07:27 AM, Carsten Mattner wrote: I've tried to search bugzilla and forums for information on ECDSA support in the Fedora provided OpenSSH packages, but didn't find anything conclusive. What is the status? It looks like it is not enabled. $ ssh-keygen -t ecdsa unknown key type ec

Re: OT: Sending e-mails from a database

On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 1:30 PM, James Wilkinson wrote: > > I would like to send several e-mails from a GMail account and with the > > same content but with a different opening for each recipient. Is it > > possible to accomplish it with Fedora? > > How big a database? > > Thing is, this sounds li

Re: OT: Sending e-mails from a database

Paul Smith wrote: > I would like to send several e-mails from a GMail account and with the > same content but with a different opening for each recipient. Is it > possible to accomplish it with Fedora? How big a database? Thing is, this sounds like bulk emailing: if it’s large enough that you wan

OpenSSH ECDSA support

I've tried to search bugzilla and forums for information on ECDSA support in the Fedora provided OpenSSH packages, but didn't find anything conclusive. What is the status? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraprojec

Re: F16 USB pass-through to VirtualBox

On 02/22/2012 02:59 AM, Joachim Backes wrote: > > If you are using VirtualBox-OSE from rpmfusion, there is no USB support. > If you need USB support, you must install VirtualBox *and* the > VirtualBox Extension pack, both from VirtualBox.org. > I thought the OSE was no longer - and that there

Re: prips rpm

Hi, You could try to create your own RPM or compile and install from the source. On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 2:01 AM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a shell script using prips on Debian: > http://packages.debian.org/**squeeze/prips > >

Re: F16 USB pass-through to VirtualBox

> I can't get a VBox guest to see a connected USB flash drive. You can also use Shared Folder, and share /media directory. Emilio. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines:

Re: OT: Sending e-mails from a database

On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 9:57 PM, Paul Smith wrote: > Dear All, > > Sorry for this out of topic post, but I do not know of more appropriate forum. > > I would like to send several e-mails from a GMail account and with the > same content but with a different opening for each recipient. Is it > possi

Re: OT: Sending e-mails from a database

On 02/22/2012 01:57 PM, Paul Smith wrote: with a different opening for each recipient what do you mean with "different opening"? -- RMA. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Gu

OT: Sending e-mails from a database

Dear All, Sorry for this out of topic post, but I do not know of more appropriate forum. I would like to send several e-mails from a GMail account and with the same content but with a different opening for each recipient. Is it possible to accomplish it with Fedora? Thanks in advance, Paul --

Re: Hibernate: not enough swap space

On 02/22/2012 10:36 AM, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: > On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 2:22 AM, Tim wrote: >> Is your swap space active and is the kernel >> set to use it? > > `cat /proc/swaps` to check this. IIRC one of my boxes didn't enable > swap till I fiddled with it a bit a few months ago (albeit w/

Re: Hibernate: not enough swap space

On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 2:22 AM, Tim wrote: > On Tue, 2012-02-21 at 21:33 -0800, Geoffrey Leach wrote: >> This is a fresh install of Fedora 16 on a new laptop with 8GB memory. >> When I attempt to hibernate from the Session Menu I get a popup with >> the message: >> >> 10      484GB   493GB   9437

Re: Hibernate: not enough swap space

On Tue, 2012-02-21 at 21:33 -0800, Geoffrey Leach wrote: > This is a fresh install of Fedora 16 on a new laptop with 8GB memory. > When I attempt to hibernate from the Session Menu I get a popup with > the message: > > 10 484GB 493GB 9437MB logical linux-swap(v1) > > As you can see, I